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and republicans fully mobilized and have a difference of only 74,000 votes tells you how competitive our politics will be for years to come. republicans will have to raise their game though in a state that once was theirs. >> reporter: while florida didn't delay the nation like it did in 2000 with its hanging chads, the state again had problems. one big complaint, florida governor rick scott would not extend early voting from eight days to the usual 14. the governor here, popular with the tea party, told reporters, what i'm trying to do is improve the way government works. i believe in efficiency. florida voters who were in line up to seven hours on election day say the entire process is embarrassing. >> they don't call it flori-duh for nothing. >> it can't be this hard. if the rest of the country can do it, why can't we do it? >> reporter: the other problem in florida is the ballot was complicated by 11 state constitutional amendments. they were long-winded and confusing. one political analyst says the takeaway from this election is that florida, a sun belt state that had been seesa
and republicans fully mobilized and have a difference of only 74,000 votes tells you how competitive our politics will be for years to come. republicans will have to raise their game though in a state that once was theirs. >> reporter: while florida didn't delay the nation like it did in 2000 with its hanging chads, the state again had problems. one big complaint, florida governor rick scott would not extend early voting from eight days to the usual 14. the governor here, popular with the...
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republican have been doing a lot of soul searching since tuesday's election. that includes our contributor ben stein. wow, it sure hurts to lose. we in the g.o.p. came so close in so many vital states and in the popular vote. and in hindsight we can see we made big mistakes. weak behavior in the third debate. whacky senate apped candidates naming a man of great wealth and a finance background after a wall street debacle. let's not cry and swear to leave the country as some of my republican friends did the other night. our position as a party is not at all terrible. we still control the house. we have enough votes in the senate to block anything we hate. the democrats know they won by a modest margin. they have no overwhelming mandate and they know it. >> i'll tell you, i'm not one of these baby-kissing, hand-shaking candidates >> i've seen our party in far worst shape after the goldwater disaster of '64 >> i shall resign the presidency after watergate and a thorough beating we got in the '74 elections when we barely held a third of the house. we've been pronou
republican have been doing a lot of soul searching since tuesday's election. that includes our contributor ben stein. wow, it sure hurts to lose. we in the g.o.p. came so close in so many vital states and in the popular vote. and in hindsight we can see we made big mistakes. weak behavior in the third debate. whacky senate apped candidates naming a man of great wealth and a finance background after a wall street debacle. let's not cry and swear to leave the country as some of my republican...
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and how will president obama govern in a second term? we'll talk to a newly elected document congressman, joaquin castro. plus republican strategist steve schmidt, presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd, and the "washington post's" bob woodward. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the world's longest-running television program, this is "meet the press." with david gregory. >> and good sunday morning. the newly re-elected president's message on friday, get back to work. but the focus of that work and on that work is now overshadowed by friday afternoon's resignation of cia director david petraeus, which sent as you know shock waves through washington. new details emerging now this weekend about the fbi investigation that led to the discovery of what officials believe was an extramarital affair between petraeus and his biographer, paula broadwell. and of course so many questions about where this goes from here. joining me now for the latest on this develop
and how will president obama govern in a second term? we'll talk to a newly elected document congressman, joaquin castro. plus republican strategist steve schmidt, presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd, and the "washington post's" bob woodward. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the world's longest-running television program, this is "meet the press." with david gregory. >> and...
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. >> looking back at the election, what can republicans take away from obama's re-election? >> that if they're going to win the white house again, they have to be a bigger party than they are. they are primarily a party of white men. they have lost ground with the changing demographics of the country. the president expanded the coalition of younger people, women, minorities, latinos, republicans have been left behind in that area. and they're going to have to figure out where they go from here if they're really going to expand as a party. >> and on the flip side of things, i know we're only -- we're not even a week away from when the election happened, but are we able to pinpoint how president obama won? >> yeah. he won by expanding his coalition of young people, of minorities, particularly latinos, and women. and he did it across basically all of the battleground states. all that changed this time around is indiana and north carolina flipped back to being republican states. that's it. everything from 2008 stayed the same. president obama was able to expand the coalition. we
. >> looking back at the election, what can republicans take away from obama's re-election? >> that if they're going to win the white house again, they have to be a bigger party than they are. they are primarily a party of white men. they have lost ground with the changing demographics of the country. the president expanded the coalition of younger people, women, minorities, latinos, republicans have been left behind in that area. and they're going to have to figure out where they...